On 06/01/2021 10:43, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:36:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 05/01/2021 22:23, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> In both languages, context selects the appropriate method
>>
>> Until it doesn't.
>>
>> A day wasted debugging JavaScript to ascertain why IE was totally
>> different to Firefox.
>>
>> There was an implicit cast happening in IE which wasn't in Firefox that
>> turned a 1 into  a "1"..
>>
>> Context dependency just adds another layer of complexity and a source of
>> more bugs
>
> ... well, if you use crappy interpreted languages with untyped variables
> then you've chosen to accept that sort of thing as normal.
>
Sadly javaScript is all you get in a browser

> I much prefer strongly typed languages, so the only language I use that
> isn't strongly typed is the bash shell script.
>
>
So do I.

>


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